Budget savings bank



- June 11, 1929. P. c. KO EUNE 1,716,823

BUDGET SAVINGS BANK Original Filed July 50 1926 Patented June 11, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BUDGET SAVINGS BANK.

Application filed July 30, 1926, Serial No. 125,877. Renewed October 31,1928.

My invention relates to boxes intended to receive savings funds eitherfor house use or for deposit with a bank.

The purpose of my invention is to provide ready access to the completesubdivided fund.

A further purpose is to use a common top and lock for a considerablenumber of compartmcnts in a savings bank.

A further purpose is to embody a budget 1 system in a savings bank.

A further purpose is to reduce danger of confusion of the funds whenthey are withdrawn for deposit.

A further purpose is to provide complete identified budget boxes withina protective box and with registering openings.

Further purposes will appear in the specification and in the claims.

I have preferred to show one suggested form only, selecting a form whichis simple, practical, efficient and inexpensive and which at the sametime well illustrates the princi pics of my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective section, partly broken away, showing mypreferred form. v

Figure 2 is a section of Figure 1 taken upon line 2-2.

Figure 3 is a section of Figure 1 taken upon line 33.

Figure 4 is a top plan view of one of the individual boxes.

In the drawings similar numerals indicate like parts.

Savings accounts have been greatly infrom each box by curving the bottomwall of the box.

The combination box 1, is made up of rows of individual boxes in rows as2 and 3. A common cover 4 is hinged at 5 and is fastened by hasp 6 andlock 7 The suggested uses of creased in recent years by the practice ofthe compartments may be indicated upon the outside cover. s

The side walls 8 of the boxes come up close to the cover and areseparately closed by covers 1 to prevent mixing of coins from differentcompartments and also to cover and identify the boxes when they havebeen removed.

In order to assist in withdrawal of coins I form the bottom wall of eachcompartment preferably in the form of a curve 9 in crosssection risingfrom the point 10 at which the box has full depth-to a wall 11 of eachbox. As placed the curved bottoms of the boxes in row 2 preferably slopeoutwardly and upwardly toward an outer wall such as 13 of the larger boxand the curved bottoms of the boxes of row 3 slope outwardly andupwardly toward an outer wall such as 14.

The top cover is provided with a coin slot 15 and a bill opening 16 foreach compartment. Beneath these openings are located slightly largeropenings 15 and 16' in the individual box covers. The openings 16 arelocated preferably in the corners of the boxes and at the ends where theboxes are deepest.

Upon the under side of the cover of each individual box I mount a spring17 for each coin slot, extending the spring at the end furthest from itspoint of attachment so as to cover the coin slot, preventing withdrawalof coins while permitting insertion of the coins by pressure of the coinagainst the spring. The curved springs shown yield across the metal ofthe springs and also torsionally, giving a maximum yield for the lengthof the spring. The box is intended to be carried by handle 18. a V

In operation the coins and bills will be placed by the depositor in theboxes intended and at intervals the larger box will be taken to a bankwhere the cover is unlocked and the individual boxes, properly marked,are removed for deposit to the correspondingly subdivided aceount of thedepositor. After the separate funds have been entered by the bank inappropriate columns the box will be returned to the depositor foranother use.

In view of my invention and disclosure, variations and modifications tomeet individual whim or particular need will doubtless become evident toothers skilled in the art, to obtain part or all of the benefit of myinvention without copying the structure shown, and I, therefore, claimall such so far as box cover being larger than those in the outer cover;

2. In a coin box, walls forming a plurality of covered compartments,-and having a separate coin opening in each. lid, a laterally movablespring guard for each of the openings secured to the lid and curved fromits points of attachment to cross the opening, whereby bonding andtorsional spring functions are performed by each spring and a cover forall of the compartments apertured to register with the openings in thelids.

PETER CURTIS KO EUNE.

